Solenidium
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Read about Solenidium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Solenidium (Greek, tube, and appearance, in allusion to the shape of the fl.). Orchidaceae. Epiphytic herbs with abbreviated sts. terminated by 1-2-lvd. pseudobulbs, occasionally grown in the warmhouse: lvs. rather long, thin-leathery: scape simple, axillary from below the pseudobulb: fls. in a lax raceme, medium-sized and long-pedicelled; bracts small; sepals subequal, free, spreading; petals similar to the sepals; labellum spreading at the base of the column, contracted to a long claw, dilated at the tip, undivided; column erect, broadly 2-winged, the wings spreading above into auricles and united with the membranaceous variously toothed or lobed clinandrium; pollinia 2: caps. not known.—One species in the Colombian Andes, S. racemosum, Lindl. About 6 in. high: st. shortened: lvs. rather long, ensiform, thinly coriaceous, narrowed at the base: fls. yellow, spotted with red; sepals and petals free. Nov. J.F. 4:349. Cult. like oncidium. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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